Senior Data Science Analyst (Senior Associate / Associate Vice President)

Job Title – Senior Data Scientist

Since our launch in 2015, we’ve lent over £10bn to ambitious entrepreneurs up and down the UK. That’s led to the creation of over 40,000 new jobs and over 29,000 new homes – and we’re not about to stop there. We’re dedicated to helping trailblazing businesses thrive and our Debt Finance team are the drivers of our growth.

This is a fantastic opportunity to join a fast-paced, growing bank with a reputation for doing things differently. We don’t want another cog in the machine, we’re looking for self-starters and bold thinkers who want to pave their own career paths.

In a nutshell, the mission of the interns will join one of the Bank’s Credit (lending) teams and will analyze financial statements, including key lending and credit risk metrics.

Are you ready to step up to the challenge?

Responsibilities :

• Design, implement, and evaluate macroeconomic forecasting models, time series regressions, and machine learning models (including basic neural nets like RNN, LSTM architecture).
• Apply and explain statistical concepts like regression, correlation, multicollinearity, stationarity, autocorrelation, and model assumptions to non-technical teams.
• Work with time series, panel, and structured tabular data and perform feature engineering, data cleaning, and model validation.
• Work with SQL to extract and manipulate data, perform preprocessing and feature engineering, tune models.
• Work closely with business stakeholders, domain experts, and data engineers to define problems and deliver insights. Present insights and model performance clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Optionally, experiment with deep learning or generative AI models for internal R&D use cases

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